By Daniel Clark, 19th October 2025 Note: On 20-22 October 2025, the UK Supreme Court will be asked to re-visit the question of how to understand a deprivation of liberty. This is the fifth in our series of blogs about the case. The others are:Reconsidering Cheshire West in the Supreme Court: Is a gilded cage still a cage? byContinue reading "Cheshire West returns to the Supreme Court: The position of the parties"| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
On Monday 20th to Wednesday 22nd October, the UK Supreme Court is gearing up to hear a case that could redraw the map of human rights protections for people deprived of their liberty, and I, for one, am terrified.| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
This question strikes at the heart of the “subjective element” of deprivation of liberty. And it’s why charities like Mind, Mencap, and the National Autistic Society are sounding the alarm. As someone who has worked as a DoLS lead, Best Interests Assessor, and social worker, and now as a Practice Development Consultant at SCIE, I share those concerns.| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
There are probably constitutional and legal questions about this route to reviewing an earlier Supreme Court decision, but that’s not what interests me today. want to write about valid consent, because it’s a topic I’ve been thinking and writing about a lot since Cheshire West| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
Even when P says they’re happy with their residence, and that they do not want to leave, and welcome the fact that the doors are kept locked, this still amounts to a deprivation of liberty. I…| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
The presence of employees with disabilities can make companies and organizations more collaborative, inclusive, and attractive to job seekers.| YES! Magazine
A budget proposal from House Republicans could gut Medi-Cal. Families and advocates want to preserve a more certain future for their children’s care.| YES! Magazine
Disabled couples risk losing their benefits when they marry. A new documentary spotlights the fight to change that.| YES! Magazine
Disability rights activists spoke about the need for disability justice, more protections, awareness, resources, and more accessibility.| UNICORN RIOT
This was the opening keynote speech at the 2018 Disability Intersectionality Summit, in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Oct 13, 2018. The official video recording of this keynote can be found here. Good morning everyone. Thank you so much for having me. … Continue reading →| Leaving Evidence
Disability Justice acknowledges that all bodies are valuable, hold beauty, and are deserving of care. This extends to our community bodies, to the bodies of our plant and animal kin, and to our shared planetary body itself, the earth. Capitalism, an extraction based economy, debilitates the earth. A debilitated earth, whose precious resources are violently […]| Sins Invalid
This statement was released August 6, 2014, during a 50-day military bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) which killed over 2,200 civilians, wounded approximately 11,000, and destroyed over 20,000 homes. During this time, we were scheduled to premiere our newly released documentary at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, which included an invitation […]| Sins Invalid
Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility| Sins Invalid
Thanks so much to the Wellcome Collection for including Zine Maker in their new exhibition Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice. The exhibition runs from 14th March to 14th September 2025 and looks at how zines have been used to share experiences of disability and disabled identity. The Zine Maker zine will be near […] The post Zines Forever! appeared first on Rewriting The Rules.| Rewriting The Rules
